We are Paola, Abdul, Michele, Mamy, Patrizia and many other invisible workers. We are the ones who plant and pick the fruits and vegetables you find on your tables. Our sweat is one of the ingredients in your daily diet. Every morning, we wake up at dawn, break our backs in the fields all day and go back to sleep at night in our slums, shacks or ruined farms.

Today we need you and your generosity. We are human beings, not just arms to be exploited, and our stomachs are almost always empty.

In the midst of today's global scourge - with the daily drama of contagion and the silent slaughter that takes away our loved ones every day without being able to greet and embrace them - we discover that we are all the same and united by the same anguish, the same fear, the same pain and the same grief.

Money and technology had fooled humanity, which believed itself invincible, capable of mastering space and taming time. However, death, which knocks daily on our doors, destroying entire families, reminds us that we cross the frontier of life, either to enter or to leave, always alone and without anything. That is why human life remains the most precious gift.

We are rightly told to stay locked up in our homes to defeat this invisible enemy. But if we do not come out, we will not feed anyone, including the doctors and nurses in the trenches. We work without gloves, masks and a safe distance between us. For many of us, there are no extra-legal benefits, no leave entitlements or severance pay. For us, there are only the difficulties of work and the respiratory, osteomuscular, grastro-intestinal diseases. And now the terror of the coronavirus.

Perhaps it is in these difficult times, when human beings become aware of their own fragility, that it becomes easier to look at the slums of humanity and hear the cry of pain of the workers of the land.

That is why we are inviting you today to make a donation that will allow us to bring food